Curative care comprises health care contacts during which the principal intent is to relieve symptoms of illness or injury, to reduce the severity of an illness or injury, or to protect against exacerbation and/or complication of an illness or injury that could threaten life or normal function (HC.1 in the SHA classification).

Inclusion

- All components of curative care of illness (including both physical and mental/psychiatric illnesses) or treatment of injury

The occupancy rate is calculated as the number of beds effectively occupied (bed-days) for curative care (HC.1 in SHA classification) divided by the number of beds available for curative care multiplied by 365 days, with the ratio multiplied by 100.

Occupancy rate = Total number of bed-days during the year / (Number of beds available * 365 days) * 100_

Public Health Institute of Federation of B&H; Department for Health Statistics and InformaticsPublic Health Institute of Republic of Srpska- Department for Social medicine, with HealthOrganization and Health Economics. Law on health evidence and statistical research in health. Annualreport of hospitals.Department for Health of Brcko District

Cyprus

Only public sector general hospitals.

Czechia

Source: Institute of Health Information and Statistics of CR (IHIS CR). Survey on bed resources ofhealth establishments and their exploitation. Coverage: Data relate to all in-patient care inUniversity hospitals and Acute care hospitals. Break in time series: Until 1999 data covers only establishments of the Health Sector. From 2000data covers also health establishments of other central organs.

Denmark

Bed occupancy in %, somatic hospitals with an average length of stay of 18 days or less.Source: Ministry of Health

Source: National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia (NCDC) (http://www.ncdc.ge)

Germany

Acute care bed-days comprise bed-days in general hospitals in all sectors (public, not-for-profitand private). Bed-days in mental health hospitals, prevention and rehabilitation homes and long-termnursing care facilities are excluded. The number of bed-days refers to the sum of all inpatients atmidnight. The day of admission counts as one bed-day so that day cases (patients admitted for amedical procedure or surgery in the morning and released before the evening) are also included. Oneday case constitutes one bed-day. As of reporting year 2002, the German name for \bed-day\" changedfrom \"Pflegetag\" to \"Berechnungs und Belegungstag\". This leads to a consistent terminology with thecase related reimbursement. Acute care beds comprise beds in general hospitals in all sectors(public

Source: Ministry of Health. The rate refers to acute care beds in public and private hospitals,accredited by the National Health Service. Private hospitals not accredited by the National HealthService are excluded. Clinical data gathered in the hospital discharges database are coded with thefollowing versions: until 2005 with ICD9-CM version 1997, from 2006 to 2008 with ICD9-CM version2002, since 2009 with the ICD9-CM version 2007.

Figures relate to the main acute public hospital. Source: Patient Administration System (PAS)- ADTModule (Admissions Discharges and Transfers).

Montenegro

Data are for discharges (Stationary medical centres are included).

Netherlands

Breaks in series: before 2002 Data included cots for healthy infants and psychiatric care in generalhospitals. Cots for healthy infants and bed-days of newborns are excluded in the calculations after2002. Statistics Netherlands: Statistics of intramural health care. The data includes in-patient days excluding day care days.

Portugal

Source of data: National Statistical Institute Coverage: National

Republic of Moldova

The average number of days during which the hospital bed is occupied, in% of the available 320 days(average standard of bed occupancy per year).

Serbia

Source: Institute of Public Health of Serbia.

Slovakia

Calculation includes hospitals of acute care except special departments designated for psychiatriccare, long-term care and rehabilitation.

Slovenia

Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana 1996.

Spain

Average number of days when hospital bed was occupied as % of available 365 days. In this statisticsacute care hospitals means general hospitals+ especial hospitals with short-stay. Source up to 1996:National Statistics Institute and Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs. Statistics on HealthEstablishments Providing Inpatient Care. Source from 1996: Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs(www.msc.es/).

For hospitals under Ministry of Health only.Source: Centre of Health Statistics, Ministry of Health.

United Kingdom

Source of Data: England - Department of Health KH03 form. Scotland - National Health Service. Wales - Health Statistics Wales based on the QSI Quarters Extract. N.Ireland - Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, KH03. Coverage: UK - Data refers to NHS hospitals only. In parts of the UK it is not possible to separate curative(acute) beds from long-term or rehabilitative beds. As such UK acute care beds data includescurative (acute)+ long-term+ rehabilitative. Only wards which are open overnight are included (i.e.not day patient beds).

England 2010- The data for 2010 is lower because the definition changed to the classification forbed availability and occupancy was changed from ward type to the consultant specialty of theresponsible consultant and are now only collected for consultant led beds. This followedconsultation with the NHS, as concerns had been expressed that the ward classifications, which wereset in the late 1980s, were no longer relevant. Using the consultant specialty allowed NHSorganisations to utilise their patient administration systems to calculate the data. Previously theNHS would estimate the number of available bed days. This means that there is a step change in thetimeseries for KH03 data as the basis of the collection was changed.

Break in Time Series: Data from 2000 onwards is not comparable with data from prior to this. Thisis due to work conducted to improve compliance with definitions and consistency of methodologiesacross the four parts of the UK. Scotland - Data were previously based on financial year - now based on calendar year forconsistency, previous figures included psychiatric beds, as per now exclude all psychiatricspecialties, G1 to G5.